Word: screen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Already, the plot is beginning to sound confusing. However, it is competently brought together by a first class cast. The actors don't let themselves get in the way of the screen flatness of their characters, so that Stone is just like every though talking, rough playing sleuth you've ever seen, and Buddy every double dealing, triple timing studio exec to have graced the realm of film stereo type. It is a tribute to the cast's talent that their characters outlive their interpretations. In a sense the script is so solidly seductive that the lines each time they...
Wilson sees definite parallels between his situation and that portrayed on screen. "That's just my life and I love it," he says. The actors in these two movies, Rupert Everett and Paul Rudd, also have a role in the appeal to Wilson. "Can I drool much more? I don't think so," Wilson says...
There is a lesson or two to be learned from these cautionary tales. There are a few things you can do to protect yourself. Screen potential guests on the basis of hygiene (e.g. does she bring her own soap or shampoo?) and sociopathic tendencies. When a nightmare guest does take over the room, stay tolerant by staying absent. Above all, be very, very cautious upon hearing the disclaimer "I don't really know her that well." There is truth to the old saying that houseguests, like fish, start to stink after three days. Some of them arrive rotten...
...Celebrity, even though it is shot in austere black and white on palpably real locations, turns into something new for him: an epic. It contains 242 speaking parts and 5,128 extras--forces sufficient, if deployed in a different context, to make a biblical spectacle. Or--better comparison--a screen version of Thackeray's Vanity Fair or some other satirical, multilayered saga of halfway decent, halfway desperate people trying to make their way in a corrupt society...
...first thing I am asked to do when I log on to America's Doctor Online is wait. "There are 32 people ahead of you," the screen says. Pretty realistic, I think. Next time I'll bring a magazine. Ten minutes later, I'm in a one-on-one chat with Amdoc4. I ask him one of my standard test questions: "Why don't my HDL and LDL numbers add up to my total cholesterol number?" And he answers, correctly, that there are other factors like VLDL...